Word: cordes
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...sterile environment, as did David, the famous "Bubble Boy," who died after 12 years inside a sealed plastic enclosure. Andrew, however, has a chance to lead a normal life. In a new test of gene therapy, doctors at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, using blood extracted from his umbilical cord moments after he was born, separated out some white cells and inserted a new gene into them. The altered cells were injected into Andrew's body four days later in what could become part of a remarkable medical milestone: the first attempts to cure a disease by gene therapy...
While stem cells are scarce and difficult to extract in children and adults, they are plentiful in umbilical-cord blood. For that reason, the new gene- therapy technique is particularly applicable to newborns. And the parents of both infants involved in this month's California experiments had ample warning that they would need the new treatment...
Emery and Gobea also agreed to have their son be part of the experiments. Immediately after Andrew was born, the obstetrician snipped his cord and drew out the umbilical blood. She rushed it to Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, where a team led by Drs. Donald Kohn and Kenneth Weinberg separated the stem cells and endowed them with normal ADA genes. Then the newly equipped stem cells were injected into the baby's bloodstream. Two days later, Wara went through the procedure on Zachary Riggins in San Francisco, after his stem cells had been shuttled to Kohn and Weinberg...
...tennis, not war. "He did not want to kill Monica Seles," said a police spokesman. "He only wanted to injure her so Steffi Graf could become No. 1 again." The assailant, a 38-year-old German lathe operator, nearly succeeded. His 4.5-in. boning knife barely missed Seles' spinal cord, and it put a 1/2- in.-deep cut in the muscles of her upper back. Doctors at a nearby hospital closed the wound and predicted that it would heal quickly. Nevertheless, the wound put her out of the Hamburg tournament -- she was top seed and was leading Bulgarian Magdalena Maleeva...
...Ovitz that means continuing to push the boundaries of what a Hollywood talent agency does. On his telephone is a sign that reads, COMMUNICATE! And early each morning, he slips on a high-tech headset, plugs the extralong cord into that phone and spends the next 12 hours working his relationships, cajoling, brokering, turning that exhortation into new ways of making money...